In a recent speech at Columbia University, Noam Chomsky strongly criticizes the Bush Administration’s war against Iraq. He speaks against the power investors have over world affairs, the media’s capitulation to them and much more. [includes transcript]

Newly declassified documents reveal how construction firm Bechtel planned to evade economic sanctions imposed by Washington after Saddam Hussein used poison gas on Iraq’s Kurdish minority and additional documents show that Donald Rumsfeld went to Baghdad for a second visit in March 1984 deliver a private message about WMDs.

We speak with journalist Yvonne Ridley who reported in last weekend’s Sunday Express that Saddam Hussein was actually captured by Kurdish forces who then drugged him and abandoned him for U.S. troops to find after brokering a deal. In 2001, Ridley was imprisoned for 10 days by the Taliban while on assignment in Afghanistan.

Retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner discusses how the Bush administration used the press to conduct psychological operations aimed at Iraqi resistance fighters in the days following Saddam Hussein’s capture. [includes transcript]

We speak with Fadi Elayyan, a Palestinian student attending university in Baghdad when U.S. forces arrested him and five of his friends in April. He was imprisoned for two months without charge before being released.

We speak with investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss and retired Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski about a secret Pentagon intelligence unit created weeks after 9/11 to push disinformation and faulty intelligence to create the case for war in Iraq.

As Presidential envoy James Baker wins agreements from Germany and France to forgive billions of dollars in debt to Iraq, we take a look at the former secretary of state’s talks in Germany, his 1991 meeting with then-Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz and how continued sanctions could have led to Iraq’s withdrawal from Kuwait. [includes transcript]